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'Invention of Lying' Trailer: Prepare for ELO to Tell You to Feel Good

June 26, 2009 / comedy, invention of lying, matt robinson, movie, Ricky Gervais, this side of the truth, trailer

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Hey, there's a trailer for the high concept, first-man-to-ever-lie comedy, The Invention of Lying. Something of a "We Are the World" of comedies, with appearances by all sort of people you don't expect to see all in one place--including Louis CK, Tina Fey, Rob Lowe, Jonah Hill, Jason Bateman, Christopher Guest, Jeffrey Tambor, John Hodgman, Patrick Stewart, Stephen Merchant, Freaks & Geeks's weirdest geek, and more--the film stars Ricky Gervais as the first man to conceive of untruths in a world that's never thought to lie.

I really wanted to like this, but about halfway through, around the time I started wondering why Robin Williams wasn't the star, my worries began. Hopefully this is just a bad, really broad trailer:

I thought we were done using "Mr. Blue Sky" in trailers. Let's put that in the soundtrack retirement home, in a nice bed next to Requiem for a Dream song.

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